Обама: I came from very modest means. I had a single mom and my grandparents raised me and it was because of the help of scholarships and my grandmother scrimping on things that she might have wanted to purchase and my mom, at one point, getting food stamps in order for us to put food on the table.

McCain: I grew up in a family where my father was gone most of the time because he was at sea and doing our country's business. My mother basically raised our family.